Thursday, August 7, 2008

Earthworms Enemy

We will discuss about earthworms enemies here. There are certain problems during growing worms. The worms enemies are as follows

1. Snakes, scorpions - before you start growing worms it is good to put sulfur around the working area. This might prevent snakes to come near to the place. It will harm worms as their favourite food. Cost of the sulfur (belerang) is around rm6.00 per pack
2. Small insects -we call it "hama" here, in Malay. I don't know other places. It is a white tiny insects that will harm eggs not worms. This will affected your next generation of worms. The way to prevent it is using "serai" leaves(will tell you all later in english), black pepper that we crunch a little bit and also we can use water based mosquito aerosol. It cost is around rM8.00 per bottle.
3. Ants- the red ants is the most dangerous to worms. You can prevent it before getting started with your worm farm. Using the ant killer materials that you can buy from hardware shop. It may cost you around RM 6.00 per pack.
4. Others - ladybird, bird, squirell, frog and duck

Musuh musuh cacing antaranya adalah seperti berikut:
1. Ular dan seangkatan dengannya seperti lipan, kala jengkin- gune belerang tabur keliling tempat keje. 1 peket : Rm 6.00 kedai hardware jual
2. Hama- gunakan daun serai, lada hitam tumbuk siket-siket dan juga boleh gune H2O earosol yang jual kat supermarket dalam Rm8.00 aje
3. Semut- paling bahaya adalah semut merah, letakkan ubat semut dahulu keliling tempat keje.
4. Lain-lain - katak, burung, ayam. itik, lalat, cengkerik, kumbang, tupai dan lain lain lagie

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